Tidaholm Loop Cycle Path
Tidaholm

Vulcanön is a good starting point

Vulcanön in central Tidaholm is a good starting point as it is an important part of Tidaholm's history. A larger car park is located adjacent to the library on Södra Kungsvägen. There is a route description with a map to pick up at Tidaholm's tourist information. The tourist information is located in the same building as Tidaholm's library. Please note that the cycle path is not signposted or marked.

Attractions along the cycle path

1. Hömbs village comprices about a dozen small dwellings at regular intervals along a village street which ends with Hömbs church and the charming Luffer cottage.

2. Kavlås castle was developed during the 1700s into one of the county's foremost estates.

3. Kungslena is located in an old village. Among other things there are three passage graves here, several Iron Age graves and ancient fields.

- Kungslena church was founded in the 1200s. The church has beautiful church paintings executed in 1749 by Johan Risberg. Among the items remaining from the earliest church is a baptismal font of sandstone from the 1100s.

- Kungslena Kungsgård manor served as the residence of the colonel of the Royal Skaraborg Regiment for 185 years. Today the manor is privately owned.

4. Gestilren is where, according to several historians, a decisive battle for Sweden's future took place in the year 1210. Seven hundred years after the battle this stone was erected as a memorial.

5. Granne Påle is a remarkable wooden signpost from the 1700s. The original road sign is said to have been erected in the time of Queen Kristina (1600s).

6. The beech forest in Ekedalen was planted in the latter part of the 1870s. The reserve is protected and is circa 3.5 hectares.

7. The burial ground in Dimbo is Västergötland's largest from the Iron Age, with just over 300 graves from the Late Iron Age.

8. Suntak old church is a rare preserved example of Romanesque architecture and dates from the latter half of the 1100s. On the walls are the remains of late medieval frescoes by Amund. A remarkable Bishop's bench was found in the church, believed to be from the late middle ages. The Suntak chair with its sculpted dragon's head is now housed in Västergötland's Museum.

9. Storegården is a manor in the Götaland style. The manor house was built originally for two families, and according to local legend in 1817, but is probably significantly older. 

10. Otterstorpasjön with its jetty and lovely grassy beach, is well worth a small detour on a warm summer's day.

11. Grimmestorps mansion dates back to the early Middle Ages, and following a motley history the mansion has been renovated.

12. First Camp Hökensås is beautifully situated by Hökensås Nature Reserve in unusual landscape with sparse pine forest and many ponds and lakes. The camping is open all year round and has amongst other things a restaurant, general store and mini-golf.

13. Hökensås sport fishing offers fly fishing, spinning, float fishing and in the winter jig fishing. Hökensås, a 5,153-hectare Nature Reserve, is very hilly with about 50 lakes and ponds in the depressions created during the Ice Age. Most of the lakes offer fishing in all forms. There is even the possibility of renting a lake.

14. Lilla Havssjön lake is the bathing paradise of choice for the Tidaholm residents with jetty, diving board, sandy and grassy beach. At the bathing spot there is also a BBQ area as well as changing huts and a dry toilet.